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Rlswrites

@rlswrites.bsky.social
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Writer, journalist, professor, mom. NYT cont writer. NO VISIBLE BRUISES. WOMEN WE BURIED, WOMEN WE BURNED. Guggy and Bernstein winner. NBCC nom. Cilantro hater. Www.globalgrit.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Washington was beloved by many for giving away power he could have kept. Trump is reviled by many for snatching power he isn’t entitled to,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “One famously wouldn’t tell a lie. The other famously can’t stop telling lies.”
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Opinion | Founding Father vs. Foundering Toddler
No. 1 puts No. 45/47 to shame.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is a sitting district court judge empowered to make factual findings and he can’t even tell whether that was an “attack”?
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Katelyn T Slater 🏳️‍⚧️⚛️⚧️ @katelynslater.com · 10/06/2026
CBS News @CBSNews

BREAKING: The Trump administration is revoking the legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.

I Smoked The Depar... @BlackKnight10k

So even if you came here the "right way" you're still getting deported. See? We told you it was racism.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/06/2026
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil died after being trapped in a building hit by Israeli airstrikes. A Post reconstruction of Khalil’s final hours found that Israel denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive. wapo.st/43omgty
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026
There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/06/2026
Republicans rammed through their $70 billion bill to fund President Trump’s immigration crackdown through the remainder of his term, after beating back bipartisan efforts to add language killing his plan to create a payout fund.
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Republicans Defeat Move to Bar Trump’s Payout Fund
The vote on Democrats’ proposal, which would have sent the G.O.P. immigration bill back to committee, kicked off a marathon of votes that stretched all day and overnight.
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Rlswrites @rlswrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
He didn’t “reject” it. He brought the damn transcript out and corrected their fake version. In other words: receipts.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Trump’s first round of MAGA hires to work in his administration in 2025 scraped the bottom of the barrel of unqualified hacks and grifters. Now he’s moved on to scraping the sludge and slime that was stuck to the bottom.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Fuck me, this is Bill Pulte. The guy who was using mortgage data to launch DOJ investigations against Lisa Cook, Letitia James and Adam Schiff. He is being put in charge of national intelligence because of his track record of being willing to manufacture false allegations to target Trump's enemies.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 01/06/2026
"Large numbers of ATF agents have been shifted from enforcing gun laws to helping ICE in its campaigns against undocumented immigrants." www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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“No One Is Watching”: How Trump Reversed Biden’s Crackdown on Gun Trafficking
After Biden clamped down on the flow of illegal guns, Trump has referred fewer ATF trafficking charges for prosecution, eased up on irresponsible gun shops and shifted hundreds of ATF agents to immigr...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...
Screenshot of a PatriotTakes post on X describing a 6-minute Republican opposition video outlining Ken Paxton's corruption, originally distributed by the NRSC, that has since been made unlisted on YouTube. The post includes a still from the video showing a black-and-white image of Paxton with a graphic reading "2011 - TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE" and text describing Paxton soliciting investments in a technology company called Servergy while serving in that role.
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Corey Johnson @coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If you haven't already, you must read this bombshell from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admitted that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from the Epstein files release. DEATH? The truth is probably far worse than anyone can imagine. Blanche needs to be prosecuted as well.
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JenBen🏳️‍🌈 @burquesky.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Our governor rocks! #NewMexico
New Mexico governor just banned ICE at voting sites.
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Kirsten Gillibrand @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
They lie. They cheat. They profit. I'm fighting to ban members of Congress AND the president from trading stocks, because no one should be profiting off the backs of the people they were elected to serve.
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weedshouldbelegal.bsky.social @weedshouldbelegal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is something you will never hear on Fox, Newsmax or any other rightwing channel.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Sadly, every word is true. The American experiment is over. Killed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one in power blinked an eye to stop it.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
He's completely incompetent, even apart from being deranged.
Ben Meiselas: You are seeing in real time why Trump companies went bankrupt so many times. Set aside your politics. This guy is incapable of making a deal or meaningful decision and it follows the same cycle. Big flashy announcement (Epic Fury). Adversity hits (Hormuz closed). Defraud stakeholders (promise two week solution). Freeze up (endless two week cycle loop). Compound the problem (resource depletion). Final chance to save face rejected (what you’re seeing now). Bankruptcy strikes and blame others during chaos. Rinse repeat.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I genuinely do not see a reason not to outlaw the distribution and hosting of AI video generation
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Tooey @sueric.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
MAJOR bullshit alert.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
On the tube
Photo of a fake OpenAi ad on the overground. Text: "Yes, we built a machine that tells teenagers to kill themselves.

But — it might also help them with their homework."

Chatgpt logo
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio says he is making a claim for $2-5 million in taxpayer money from Trump’s criminal slush fund. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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'I'm not greedy': January 6 rioters and Trump allies eye $1.8 billion 'weaponization' fund
Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years, said he planned to apply to the fund, assuming he could get between $2 and $5 million.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
JUST A REMINDER…👇 THE EPSTEIN FILES WERE LEGALLY SUPPOSED TO BE RELEASED OVER 5 MONTHS AGO… AND YET, NO ARRESTS!
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Testify at a Senate hearing today, Todd Blanche told Senator Chris Van Hollen he's met with Epstein survivors and their lawyers. Within hours, 18 Epstein survivors released a joint statement contradicting AAG Todd Blanche's testimony, directly accusing him of making false claims. I believe them.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
NEW: Epstein survivor Annie Farmer about Todd Blanche testimony about wanting to hear from Epstein survivors: "Blanche’s suggestion that survivors reach out to the Dept of Justice to re-report the crimes committed against them is beyond insulting. Many of us have already done that, repeatedly"
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/05/2026
Breaking news: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) lost his primary to a challenger backed by President Trump, the latest casualty in Trump’s efforts to exile his critics from the GOP. The race drew more than $32 million in ad spending.
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Rep. Thomas Massie loses GOP primary, the latest casualty of Trump’s wrath
Massie lost to Trump-endorsed Ed Gallrein in Kentucky after repeatedly defying the president, the latest Republican unseated after crossing Trump.
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Susan Brown @susanhypoluxo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
When did INSIDER TRADING become legal? It used to be a Federal crime with up to 25 years in prison. Mike Johnson said he needs to trade on inside information to pay his bills, like every other person in Congress. Law breaking Speaker of the House, third in line for the Presidency. CREEPY.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
He Should Be Arrested Immediately For a Lot of Reasons….
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A president's trading of securities for his personal account can in no way be argued to constitute activity that falls within the "outer perimeter" of his "official responsibilities." www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
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Fmr. government watchdog says Trump stock trades are ‘completely unprecedented’
NBC News Senior National Political Reporter Jonathan Allen and Don Fox, former acting director and general counsel of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, join Meet the Press NOW to discuss the new s...
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Rlswrites @rlswrites.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“Maybe later they’ll go to the drive-in together,” he hopes.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:
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The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe
A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening
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Council on Criminal Justice @counciloncj.org · 13/05/2026
Women's pathways into the justice system largely differ from those of men, often driven by what CCJ Policy Dir. Stephanie Kennedy described to @rlswrites.bsky.social for @nytopinion.nytimes.com as "crimes of survival." Can HI's first-of-its-kind Women's Court set an example for courts nationwide?
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“Jeffrey Epstein was under house arrest for the molestation of underage girls at the exact time he was abusing me,” she told lawmakers.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Louisiana governor: Discarding 45,000 votes ‘not a big’ deal and ‘not my fault’
“Well, it's not a big de– it's not my fault,” Landry said.
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Rlswrites @rlswrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This year has been so insane that I haven’t painted in probably 5 or 6 months, but whew! It felt good to get back in my art room tonight. I wanted to try something tonal & mono-colored. Glad I tried it; probably won’t do it again.
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Dr Oddman - #AntiFa @droddman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
If he wasn’t president, he’d be in prison.. Treason and corruption
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"The Trump administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency’s ship sanitation program..." www.huffpost.com/entry/expert...
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Experts Wonder 'Where Is The CDC?' As A Hantavirus Outbreak Unfolds On A Cruise Ship
“The CDC is not even a player," said Lawrence Gostin, an international public health expert at Georgetown University. “I've never seen that before.”
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JoonyMoon @junefaver.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Rlswrites @rlswrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I had the terrible task of going to Hawaii for my latest @nytopinion piece. This is the kind of hardship we journalists bravely do for you people! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...
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Opinion | What Would a Feminist Justice System Look Like?
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Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Calling all 1L Crim profs looking for new material for their next syllabus refresh. This @rlswrites.bsky.social will make for a wonderful class discussion early in the semester. What Would a Feminist Justice System Look Like? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...
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Opinion | What Would a Feminist Justice System Look Like?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/05/2026
In Opinion After the Virginia Supreme Court overturned a state redistricting vote, “the correct response is to fight back in the name of the people, who made their choice in a free and fair contest,” Jamelle Bouie writes. “Democrats must meet the moment. Or move over for people who will.”
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Opinion | Democrats Who Are Soft on Republicans Have Got to Go
Virginians must fight back against its Supreme Court in the name of popular sovereignty.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2026
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/05/2026
A must-read thread 🧵
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Rlswrites @rlswrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Cool. Now do Epstein.
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